Useful Links

This page last updated 2nd April 2008

See the links below for information about organisations providing advice about care and services that may be of interest to associates.

	Adviceguide The Adviceguide website is the main public information service of Citizens Advice, providing people with round-the-clock access to CAB information on their rights - including benefits, housing and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues.
	Age Concern Age Concern is the UK's largest organisation working with and for older people supporting all people over 50 in the UK, ensuring that they get the most from life.
	Arthritis Care Arthritis Care aims to empower people to take control of their arthritis and their lives.
	Citizens Advice (Bureaux) The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.
	Community Legal Service (CLS) Direct Need information about a legal problem? Want to know who and where your local adviser is? Does it cost anything and can you get financial help? If so, Community Legal Service Direct can help.
	Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) Elderly Accommodation Counsel's aim is to help older people make informed choices about meeting their housing and care needs. It is more commonly known as EAC.
	ExtraCare ExtraCare is a charitable trust which pioneered a unique approach to housing and support for older people.
	Help the Aged Help the Aged is a campaining organisation on issues that affect older people.
	The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the Government's welfare reform agenda. Its aim is to promote opportunity and independence for all. It delivers support and advice through a modern network of services to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people.